A scientific article ഹയാൻ നല്കുന്ന പാഠം or Lessons from Haiyan, on the devastating tropical cyclon Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda that hit Philippines particularly is next in line. Written by Dr. C. M. Joy and published in Janmabhoomi, it lists out the various reasons as to why the cyclone caused so much destruction and gives a caution to Keralaites that we should take adequate measures since Kerala also shows all the demerits that had lead to this unproportionate tragedy in Philippines.

I read a wonderful article titled എഴുത്തിന്റെ നീളം or “Lengths of the Literature” by Thomas Jacob published in Malayala Manorama. It gives a small glimpse into the lengths of novels written by various prominent writers – Vilasini, Thakazhi, Muttathu Varki, Kaakkanaadan and Rajalakshmi – and how they were determined. An article full of anecdotes that lovers of Malayalam literature will treasure, it is definitely a good read. It also gave me the following words, whose meaning I have written along with the list.

Having (somewhat) successfully completed the 30 Day Project of studying 5 New Words per day, I am switching over to a new Project. The new project is not really new, in the sense, it was part of my larger plan of a grander 30 day project, which alas failed miserably. Mid-way into that poorly thought-out 30 day project, I decided to just do one thing at a time.Hence I had put on hold all the other ideas. Now that November is over, rather gracefully, I take up a new challenge.

To call it a challenge is making it sound unnecessarily tough. Because the new 30 Day project, as you would have guessed is One TED Video a day. I hope to come across some really coll videos with the help of Chris Bailey’s following links.